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Jews, perhaps more than any ethnic or religious minority that has immigrated to these shores, have benefited from America's openness, egalitarianism and social heterogeneity. This new work provides a wide range of research--the clearest and most up-to-date account of the dilemma facing American Jews today.

"These seasoned observers of the Jewish community survey Jewish life in America since the earliest days of the Republic and conclude that a 'basic dwindling cycle is evident' precisely because Jews have adapted to America so successfully....Messrs. Lipset and Raab have written an important book, and their pessimism about the future of American Jewry is well-founded....Drawing from public opinion pools and survey data, Lipset and Raab illustrate the paradox of American Jewry. it is America's greatest ethnic success story, and yet is in severe decline...An important book."

Jay P. Lefkowitz, Wall Street Journal, 5/10/95

"In the age of identity politics, this is a courageous and unsettling book. When cultural 'diversity' is an American national obsession, two distinguished researchers, Seymour Martin Lipset and Earl Raab, each with a long, unbroken commitment to Jewish community in the United States and Israel, forecast the decline of American Judaism as a vibrant, active community. Reduced to its essentials, their argument in 'Jews and the New American Scene' is that the very openness of American society fundamentally undermines ancestral group cohesion."

Anne Swidler, Times Literary Supplement, 08/04/1995

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